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Indeed, kinda sucks that the LUG is ~200 miles (3.5hrs) away but they do have a FB group and monthly zoom meetup's which saves driving ~400 mile round trip every month for the 2 hour inperson meetups. The LUG is fulled with great people and builders and they have made me so welcome so I don't mind driving up to Bristol when I can. The LEGO store visit was for the LUG Xmas party, we went to Cardiff and then the Bristol stores (spend WAY too much money), and then to a pub for the evening meal where I came away even more LEGO. The day is a blur but twas and awesome day nonetheless.

Very nice work. Love the minifig legs usage, very clever.

Hello again, I guess its time to make my presence known on Eurobricks once more. As mentioned above, life got a bit hard for a while then that whole pandemic thing happend and the whole world went crazy. Things for me are improving and have changed quite a bit, I don't wish to go into it. However you'll be pleased to hear that my love of the brick has got even deeper. Since I last posted, I have joined a LUG for the first time and have met some awesome people and seen some incredible models, been to a LEGO store for the first time and have generally taken my LEGO hobby up a gear. My LEGO collection has expanded quite a lot over the past year and I have expended into System bricks as well as continuing to build with Technic. As for Technic, my artic lorry (or semi-truck for the non-British) has drastically changed since the photo above and is much improved. The drivetrain has been the biggest issue given the amount of torque it has to deal with and has taken a huge amount to time to get right. The cab unit is now more less finished, I have built an A-trailer and I am now working on a B-trailer. This lorry is now a 1:16th scale double road train. My fellow LUG members have already seen and played with it and they seem to love it so I will be posting a proper thread about it here in a month or two so keep an eye in the Technic section. I am also building a Robot Wars style battle bot that a LUG member challenged me to build for my first LEGO show at the Plymouth Brick Festival in March 2022, a challenge he is going to regret giving me. I can't really give any details on it right now incase he see's it but I do plan on making some instructions publishing them after the Plymouth show should any other LEGO Robot Wars builders want to build it. As for System bricks, I am in the very early stages of learning to build this way. I have bought a couple of system brick sets to gain building knowledge with and I am designing my first proper system brick model, this being a recreation of a famous landmark (instructions might be made public, it depends on serveral things), more details coming soon. Some may remember the building area that I built. This has stayed largely the same apart from the LED batten light being replaced with a LED floorlight and I now have enough plastic tubs to fill the shelves. I plan on building a floor unit for PAB cups for more part storage (having been kindly given a load by a LUG member) which I plan on doing in the spring. Although I haven't posted on here for a couple of years, I have been lurking and while certain recent events have been disappointing to see on here, some of the models posted have been fantastic, it always amazes me the creativity of some members and the quality of their builds is remarkable. Until I post a full write-up of my lorry, I shall leave you with an updated teaser photo of the cab unit. Take care and stay safe Morgan

No seen this video before but yes, I have built an offset drawbar camera trailer and a camera dolly which is pulled along with a winch. You'll see them both on action when I film the video for my artic lorry hopefully this weekend. LEGO can be quite useful for photography.

I have mixed feeling about this. This will either be a great success and will be awesome for the AFOL community (which I very much doubt) or it will be the beginning of the end of Bricklink. With LEGO's recent behavior with going after people for things like custom/3D printed parts, printing/chroming ect as @Peppermint_M said, I have no faith that this is going to work. Bricklink should remain independent, it has done well over the last 20 years and now LEGO want to have a monopoly over the used part market. This has got corporate greed written all over it, I expected much better from LEGO and I'm disappointed with BrickLink for choosing to have a few extra pennies in their pockets over the AFOL community ???

I really don't get this COPPA balls**t, it seems to me that YT are doing what big companies do best, make massive errors, get caught and then pass the blame onto someone else, in this case content creators, so they don't have to deal with the issue. YT are telling people to seek legal advice...so are Google going to pay for the lawers fees then because I sure as hell can't afford to pay thousands of pounds for legal advice??? I every much doubt Google would do pay that? One thing I don't understand, when YT state "Made for kids", do they mean that the video is aimed at children or is suitable for children? Most of my videos on YT are either footage of my flights to and from Ukraine in April, a couple of videos from inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone and a couple of train videos. All of which are technically "suitable for children" as they have no content in them that is not suitable for children but not "made for children" therefore I have no idea what do to. One video has a eariler version of my LEGO lorry although that was showing that the Power Functions system does what in brightlight if you use if properly and since its LEGO is a toy I can understand if I have to mark that as "made for Kids". But the rest of my videos I have no idea. As I said, this seems like Google are trying to pass the buck onto someone else to save themselves and so they don't get the blame. With the copyright issues, monetisation scandal and now this, isn't it about time someone made a proper alternative to YT that harks back to the way YT used to be like before Google got involved and screwed it up so some people don't have to deal with all the s**t that Google keeps throwing at content creators? As others have said, I don't get how the US government can't take legal action against me when I am outside of their jurisdiction and therefore US law doesn't apply to me. If Google enforce this, they should allow non-US users to block their content from being accessable inside the US. Regardless, I got enough to deal with at the mo, I dont need the threat of getting a $462000 fine because of Googles mistakes. If all else fails, I shall simply remove my YT videos on 1/1/2020 and upload them somewhere else.

Totally, there are some things you can only do with studless, some things you can only do with studded, some things you need to use both building styles. As Mechbuilds said, it depends on what you building and you design goals. Up until my current lorry which is almost entirely studless, I'd always used studded because I found it easier. Building something like a artic lorry with studless is much harder (at least for me) but I wanted that challenge, it wasn't easy but I think I pulled it off ok.

Nope, the V1 IR receivers are able to drive 2 XL motor on one channel and a servo or M motor on the other channel at the same time so I've never needed to mod them. I wouldn't mod them anyways, they wouldn't be LEGO if I modded them. Regardless, there are plenty of H-Bridge chips on the market and they ain't expensive, find one the is able to provide enough current and give it a go. If you do, try it on a old receiver first and see if it if works, if so order more IC's and mod the rest of them.

Awesome, I can't wait to see it

Yup, the companion cube is pink, the normal weighted storage cube is blue.

".....Maybe you'll find someone else to help you, Maybe Black Mesa, That was a joke, haha, fat chance, Anyway this cake is great, So delicious and moist........" Sorry, I couldn't help myself....Ill see myself out...

This is one hell of a model. Been waiting for someone to do a LEGO version of the new Scania S series cab unit, it was sure worth the wait, this is very impressive. The stickers are just perfect to. Awesome work @mpj

Hey everyone, as you may have seen from what I put in my signature a while back, life over the last couple of months hasn't been the greatest for my family and I. I don't wish to go into too much detail but my mother has been in and out of hospital serveral times, my sister has had issues with her mental health (partly down to her own stupidity) and I have had my own issues with mental health as well as starting life changing medication. Due to all of this, I have not been very active on this forum lately and have hardly posted anything to people's projects. Life stuff has got in the way and I have been more interested in dealing with those issues mentioned above than being social. I have been visiting this site and checking out some of your projects but I just haven't posted anything. As for my artic lorry project, it to has been on hold and I have not done anything to it lately. However I plan on shooting the promo video as soon as the weather allows (its been quite windy and raining over the last few days). Once I have shot the video, edited it, I will publish it on YT, I will then post a project page in the Technic forum. Until then, here is a little teaser of my lorry cab unit for you to look forward to. Please forgive me for not being very active lately but I hope you understand. Take Care Morgan

When I bought my pack, it was shipped from Italy. I paid £7.88 plus £4.49 for express shipping for a total of £12.37GBP. The price therefore per ball was £0.08GBP which is much more reasonable than the ~£2.00GBP for the official LEGO balls and the 0.39GBP for the balls suggested by @1963maniac.

I agree, the price of LEGO balls these days are just ridiculous and is nothing short of extortion. I forget who suggested it now but someone on here gave me a link a while ago to these balls on Amazon which I ended up buying. I am a purest too but I refuse to pay like £2 per ball. These Quercetti balls, made for marble runs, cost me about £8 shipped for a pack of 100, although the pack actually contained 152 balls which is far more reasonable. They are moreless the same size and weight as the LEGO footballs and basketball the people use for GBC. If you need a large quantity of balls for GBC, I suggest using these Quercetti marble run balls.

@Zerobricks, I just watched your latest video on YT. Considering the number of tests, types of terrain ect in that video. I would consider this one of the first hard tests of these new planetary hubs. One would asume that these types of vehicles, it is best to use 92908c01 which can be easily taken apart for cleaning and lubrication if required. Maybe TLG will take note of this test and do a second version of these new planetary hubs, maybe a better seal around the edges and a screw holding it together so it can be easily taken apart for maintenance. If one can take apart the pneumatics rams to replace the grease, LEGO should be able to come up with a way of being able to service these new hubs. One thing I would add is that when I built the Morris C8 FAT chassis, I built portal axles and all wheels. When driving over wet muddy terrain, through thick mud holes, or over sand (most notably wet beach sand), one needs to be able to take the axles apart easily and clean any moving part or things can and will get stiffer or jam up really quick.

I saw that on the Beeb's website yesterday. Since it is going to be at Hinkley Point for the next 4 years, I'm gonna try and go up and see it at some point. I would love to see that thing. Flying flamingo, those are epic, particularly that second one. I would hate to think how long that took to design and build or the sheer cost of the thing.

I joined this site after you posted the original post so this is the first time I've seen this. A very cool model with some nice lines and features and seems to cope with offroad really well. Only question, can it cope with being driving into a tree, driven down some steps, driven through a caravan, parked in the River Severn, be set on fire and be placed on top a skyscraper that gets blown up? I ain't a Toyota Hilux if not . Joking aside, you did a great job with this. Nice work

Personally I don't buy sets, I feel that building MOC's is more suited to my skill level. I also like building models to my own specification rather than being limited by what a LEGO set offers. Yes smaller sets like 42078 can be motorised but you offen have the issue of craming all the electrical parts into a model that was never designed for it but it is possible. Building a MOC at the 42078 scale is option of course but as with all MOC's, be prepared to try one thing and have it fail and then try something else. Most MOC's have gone through multiple design iterations before the builder settles on a good balance. For a newbe with the modern era of LEGO, I would suggest buying something like 42078 so you can build it, figure out how to build with studless bricks, understand good building practices ect, build up a good collection of parts, either from other sets or buying parts from Bricklink. You can then go nuts and build a bigger scale lorry to your own specifications as I am doing.

Lol yeah, put it this way, I'm not a fan of this modern "wrapping people up in cotton wool" society we live in these days. I like danger and taking risks (hence why I like sticking my head out of a HST window at 125mph) but this I one vehicle I wouldn't go in. Yeah you have done a good job building this and getting the functions to work accurately, particularly the engine, gearbox and rear axle. But it is still ugly. Indeed, product brochures are very handy thing for us model makers.

Very cool model with some nice features, Sorry to say this but damn what an ugly mechine the real thing is, did the designers not stand back and look at it for more than 5 seconds while sober? Regardless you did a good job in capturing the ugly-ness.

Not LEGO related but I got the final parts I needed to build the analogue to DMX512 converter for my Rank Stand LX12 lighting desk (see pic). This order included: 50V 1amp bridge rectifier diodes, Fuse holders, 230V 1A fast blow fuses, 230V 0.25A fast blow fuses, 35V 2200uF capacitors, 50V 0.1uF capacitors, 7805 voltage regulators, TO220 thermal pads, TO220 heatsinks, Dual primary, dual secondary 24V 20VA transformer. The company I always buy my electronics stuff from, Rapid Electronics, gave me a £25 voucher last month for a review I left on a product I bought from them, so I only had to pay for shipping, VAT plus £2.64 for a £35 order This is a picture of my lighting desk. This was the same lighting desk that I used at school along with two Rank Strand Mini 2 dimmer packs and is what got me hooked on stage lighting. The desk outputs voltages between 0V and -10V, I am building a converter unit to convert that 0 to -10V into 0 to +5V which will then go into an Arduino Mega 2560. The Arduino will then convert that into serial data to be sent to a Maxim Max485 chip which will then output DMX512 data to my LED Parcans (or what ever else I connect it to). Due to Atmel 2560 having so much storage space and the fact that the convert will use very little storage space, I will also be able to use the LX desk as a normal lighting desk or be able to program into the Arduino channel values for all 512 channels so I can use the LX desk as a submaster controller. The converter unit will add so much capability into this desk, far more than Rank would have thought possible when they designed this desk back in 1989/1990.

Argos also have the Porsche 911 RSR - 42096 half price: Was £130 -Now £65 Edit, not sure if this is still available, the website says it's out of stock in all Cornwall stores and not available for home delivery.

Yeah it sucks, there are a few toy stores in Hayle, St Ives, Truro, Penryn/Falmouth ect that sell LEGO but they are just normal retailers who sell LEGO and not actual LEGO stores so they don't have a Pick-a-Brick wall. Most don't even have a good selection of LEGO, just small sets aimed at children rather than AFOL's. Tis why I have to buy my parts from Bricklink and offen pay inflated prices instead of going to a proper LEGO store. Cornwall is a tourist destination for emmets so things like concert venues, decent theme parks and indeed LEGO stores simply don't exist here. If you want a Cornish Pasty, we've got ya covered but if you want LEGO, you gotta import them from other parts of the UK or mainland Europe. Wow that is ridiculous, 63 bucks, what an utter rip off. Would love to know how they can justify charging that for a couple of drinks, a sandwich and a taco. At that price, I wouldn't have bothered giving a tip. My Dad and I went to Ukraine in April to visit Chernobyl and Pripyat, while exploring Kiev, we stopped in this restaurant about 1/2 mile from Independence Square for lunch. My Dad had a huge cheese burger (with a salad), a cappuccino and a coke (strange combo I know), I had these really nice potato pancake things and a cup of tea, afterwards they gave us a slice of really nice cake each for free. Not sure exactly what it cost us now but it was about £8.50GBP (about $10.30USD at todays rates). We're planning on going back the Ukraine again next year and needless to say we will be going back to that restaurant again. Yes indeed there was a ship a few years ago that spilt a load of LEGO into the sea. Parts still wash up on the Cornish and Devonshire coast to this day. But they are so badly damaged or broken and are unuseable so any LEGO still in the ocean is just pollution rather than being free LEGO. Just off Lands End, about 1/3 the way to the Isles of Scilly, there are something like 5 powerful ocean currents that meet so anything in that area that doesn't have an engine doesn't survive long. The Penlee Lifeboat disaster highlighted this back in 1981. A brand new ship, the Union Star, lost its engine and started drifting towards the coast. A Royal Navy helicopter from RNAS Culdrose (piloted by a US Navy pilot) and the RNLI Penlee Lifeboat went out to try and save the crew, but both ship and lifeboat were smashed into rocks by 60ft waves killing 16 people (search for "penlee lifeboat diaster - cruel sea" on youtube). LEGO in the ocean around here don't stand much chance of staying intact or in useable condition.

Welcome to Eurobricks . For your very first MOC, this is a fantastic attempt. I agree with @Gray Gear, some of the proportions are a little off but you did a great job for your first Technic MOC.